Just finished watching Goodbye Lenin! for next week's ES tutes... it's a pretty recent film, made in 2003. I'm sure everyone has heard of it before, and the rough plot of the film. About a guy who tries to recreate life in the former GDR (East Germany) for his mum after she recovers from her coma. His mum is a resolute socialist and during the coma, the Wall falls. A lil' bit comical, cos' the whole family has trying to find Spreewald pickles, and "East" coffee.. when all the stores are flooded with Coke and all... They even go to the extent of recording news programmes from the east, and try to change history by saying that "it's the West that has collapsed to the East", so that the mum will be happy and not suffer from a 2nd heart attack.
Was watching ABC's lateline yesterday... and all I saw was drab news. Schapelle Corby (Case 1) and 9 other Australians (Case 2) are being held in Bali for alleged drug trafficking.. and Corby, and 4 out of the 9 Australians face death by firing squad if found guilty. And you seem to get the sense, as in the way the media is portraying it, that the Indonesian courts are biased, corrupted and unfair against the Australians. Hmm. Hope truth will prevail there. Still so many ppl dying in Iraq, and there was a segment about Darfur... where they were showing entire villages being obliterated, and allegations of people being tortured, women being gang-raped, eyes being gouged out. Like, you sometimes feel that life is so unfair.. that we have so much, and they have to suffer. I used to believe that life's like that, and there's really nothing much we could do.. let alone the (useless) politicians, but why should it be like that?
ANZAC day is on Monday, 25 Apr. It's a university & public holiday... it's a day to commemorate the Aussies and Kiwis who have fallen during WWI (I'm not sure whether also WW2)... the battles at Gallipoli, and there was also a commemoration ceremony yesterday to remember those POWs who perished in Changi. The Singapore government gave a lock (which was used to lock them in) to some war veteran association here as a "token of appreciation", I quote from the Singapore tourism officer who said that on TV. That seemed like a banal way to express herself.